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Efforts are underway to set up member briefings next week, but Democrats want the Trump administration to go further.

While the House and Senate are unlikely to restrain the president, bipartisan backers of the legislative branch’s war powers want to put lawmakers on the record.

“We can support the democracy movement and the Iranian people without sending our troops to die,” says Sen. Ruben Gallego.

Democrats say the depositions pave the way for slapping Trump with a subpoena. Republicans say they point to his exoneration.

Former President Bill Clinton told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that it’s “for you to decide” whether to call up current President Donald Trump to testify in the panel’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation, Chair James Comer told reporters Friday. “[He] went on to say that, ‘President Trump has never said anything to

The Trump administration spent more than half of the balance in the nation’s disaster relief fund this week, pointing to that dwindling aid as means to pressure Democrats into yielding in Department of Homeland Security funding negotiations. A FEMA spokesperson said Friday that the agency sent out more than $5 billion this week for recovery

Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have the votes to force Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify before their panel about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told reporters Friday. “I believe we will have the votes to subpoena him,” Khanna said outside a performing arts